Fans of the German national football react at a public viewing event in Berlin after their team was knocked out of the 2018 Fifa World Cup. AFP

Jennie Wade
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02 July, 2018, 10:29

But Mexico City exploded with joy when South Korea scored two injury-time goals to eliminate the defending world champions in a huge upset.

Few gave the Koreans any chance of reversing that defeat on Wednesday, with some bookmakers offering odds of 100-1 on a 2-0 win, but as coach Shin Tae-yong said ahead of the match: "The ball is round, anything can happen".

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So, are Mexico and South Korea now the unlikeliest of best friends? This was not the Germany we know. They were still in position to advance despite trailing Sweden, but they were waiting - some with tears in their eyes - for Germany to do the inevitable and ruin their chances of moving on.

That was highlighted by the inconsistent team selections, which saw only three outfield players keep their place for each match, and confused thinking with Leon Goretzka, a central midfielder or number 10, played as a right winger against South Korea.

Besides Germany this year, France in 2002, Italy in 2010 and Spain in 2014 were the previous defending champions to get eliminated in the group stage.

Disharmony Coach Joachim Low felt there was a degree of arrogance within the squad going into the World Cup (Lee Jin-man/AP).

Sweden won the group and will play Switzerland on Tuesday in St. Petersburg. A narrow 2-1 win over Saudi Arabia shortly before catching the plane to Russian Federation was their first win in six matches and you had to go back to a 5-1 victory over Azerbaijan in October 2017 to see their last win before beating the Saudis. Today, for the first time we chose to play with four and not that structure. But they controlled this one. Serbia and Costa Rica were eliminated from Group E.

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I think everyone has a soft spot for their last 16 opponents Mexico and not just because their fans have brightened up the event. He said: "At that time, Spanish teams were favourites but, to use a Russian expression, "anyone can be God if he tries to".

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So Japan goes through and next plays the victor of Group G on Monday, while Colombia will face the Group G runner-up Tuesday. Poland , for the third straight World Cup that it has competed in, lost its first two group matches and then won its third.

If they can come through Saturday's tie, they may even start to believe that they can go all the way and win a third World Cup, a first since 1950. "Nine of the players on the pitch for Portugal are European champions, so that speaks of the quality, and we have been preparing for quite a while".

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Argentina has only one point from two matches after drawing 1-1 with Iceland and recording an embarrassing 0-3 loss to Croatia. Argentina . "There is nothing I can pay them for the past seasons I've been with them other than to say "thank you very much".

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In case of a draw or a loss, their chances will depend on whether South Korea manage to beat Germany in the other Group F match. The team won both its first matches in the tournament but has never achieved three consecutive victories in a World Cup .

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